[News] Who can't spell granny?

[Super Steve Earle]

Is it Prince William, whoever transcribed his speech, or the media, but someone can't spell granny. Grannie is the plural noun, not the singular and it looks bloody weird in William's statement. Somebody should have known. Somebody should have corrected it before it hit the media. Now it's forever enshrined in history.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Well when I look it up on dictionary.com it suggests granny and grannie are interchangeable and that the plural noun is grannies.

 

[Taybha]

I've very fond memories of trying to grab both versions down pool valley,at no point did I stop to think about nouns and plural implications of my actions.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Gran, granny, grannie, nanny, Nana, grandma

All are perfectly valid.

Signed a grandma.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Well when I look it up on dictionary.com it suggests granny and grannie are interchangeable and that the plural noun is grannies.

To answer the original question, [MENTION=13265]Super Steve Earle[/MENTION]

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Gran, granny, grannie, nanny, Nana, grandma

All are perfectly valid.

Signed a grandma.

Agreed - although I do draw the line at Nana-Nana ( and Big Gran-Gran for Grandad ) that my neice uses for her Mum's parents !

 

[WATFORD zero]

Agreed - although I do draw the line at Nana-Nana ( and Big Gran-Gran for Grandad ) that my neice uses for her Mum's parents !

When my kids were small they had their Nan, and her mother Nan-Nan. I believe that to be acceptable

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Agreed - although I do draw the line at Nana-Nana ( and Big Gran-Gran for Grandad ) that my neice uses for her Mum's parents !

My aunt lived on a farm near Henfield, so her grandchildren called her Granny Cow.

 

[WATFORD zero]

My aunt lived on a farm near Henfield, so her grandchildren called her Granny Cow.

Good Sussex insult. My wife, from Glasgow, was stunned the first time I called her a silly one

 

[Live by the sea]

Don’t personally like the word Granny sounds very old lady to me , Nan or Nana I loath sounds like coronation street . Grandma sounds a bit more classy & less old lady .

 

[el punal]

Well when I look it up on dictionary.com it suggests granny and grannie are interchangeable and that the plural noun is grannies.

That’s the end of the fread.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Is this what we've come to, only days after the death of Her Majesty?

The human capacity for trivial indulgence in the face of a momentous occasion is, frankly, alarming.

Lovely day, though. I may go for another nice cycle ride somewhere.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Freed from desire, mind and senses purified, freed from desire, mind and senses purified

Gran, granny, grannie, nanny, Nana

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Well when I look it up on dictionary.com it suggests granny and grannie are interchangeable and that the plural noun is grannies.

To answer the original question, [MENTION=13265]Super Steve Earle[/MENTION]

Dictionary.com is basically American and based on an American Dictionary so I think they can be discounted thanks.

 

[Swansman]

Don’t personally like the word Granny sounds very old lady to me , Nan or Nana I loath sounds like coronation street . Grandma sounds a bit more classy & less old lady .

96 is arguably pretty old.

 

[Bakero]

Don’t personally like the word Granny sounds very old lady to me , Nan or Nana I loath sounds like coronation street . Grandma sounds a bit more classy & less old lady .

In always referred to mine as G-Mama to give her more of an edgy, street feel. Grandad was Poppa Large, or simply Pop Lizzle.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Dictionary.com is basically American and based on an American Dictionary so I think they can be discounted thanks.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/granny?q=Grannie

 

[Is it PotG?]

How did Rooney spell it on his expenses?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Dictionary.com is basically American and based on an American Dictionary so I think they can be discounted thanks.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/granny - opps - I assume Collins meets your quality threshold ? Think you owe the Prince of Wales an apology.

 

[Mr Smggles]

My aunt lived on a farm near Henfield, so her grandchildren called her Granny Cow.

My Grandparents had a thing for collecting elephant ornaments. So mine was affectionally known as "Elephant Granny". Looking back, I'm not quite sure how she felt about that.